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`Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s. Campus is a haven of opportunity for the brightest African students a meeting place for thinkers and writers from all over the world and its alumni are filling Africa's emerging political and cultural positions. Despite the challenges he faces as a young black man in a British colony it is here that Ngugi begins to find his voice as a playwright journalist and novelist writing his first pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa enter the final stages of their independence struggles.

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`Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s. Campus is a haven of opportunity for the brightest African students a meeting place for thinkers and writers from all over the world and its alumni are filling Africa's emerging political and cultural positions. Despite the challenges he faces as a young black man in a British colony it is here that Ngugi begins to find his voice as a playwright journalist and novelist writing his first pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa enter the final stages of their independence struggles.

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